Goals

Eden is doing so well.  She is making great progress every hour now.  I went in today and she had a total of 21 different medicines and fluids going into her little body.  I'm just waiting for the day that the number is zero!  Anyway, the nitrous is gradually being reduced.  She went from 20 to 2 and she will probably be off this by late tonight.  Her urine output is still great. We are trying to have her pee more than she takes in so her swelling goes down.  They still have her on morphine for the pain because they want her to get a lot of rest, but that in time will be reduced as well.  Blood Pressure looks great, oxygen levels look great, her little body is warm (for a while there she was so cold - it was scary)... she's still pretty swollen but this will go down over time.  

If everything goes well she will have her chest closed and sewn up on Friday.  It's still open and we can't wait for it to be closed.  With her ribs spread and just her skin over the big space, you can actually see every beat of the heart thru her thin little skin, not the prettiest sight to see on your baby.  After this, it will be just a matter of days that her chest tubes will come out and she will get off the ventilator. They don't like kids to be on the ventilator too long because they can get lazy and forget how to breath on their own; however, because Eden was never dependent on it during her first week of life she stands a better chance of getting off it with fewer problems.  

You know us, we love goals.  So the goal is to have her off the ventilator and no chest tubes by this time next week.  I think that's a pretty conservative goal, what do you think Eden?  

Again, Keisa and I thank you for you love, concern, dinners, prayers, thoughts, blog posts and everything else.  We can't tell you what means to us and how much strength we feel from your prayers.  We know God lives and we are his children, that He is concerned for us and knows what we are going thru and that He loves us and wants to help us; we just have to let him. Thanks for being part of this great plan!  We love you all so much.